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Food for thought: when excess safety precautions clash with reality on the ground (Ebola outbreak, see News tab)

05 September 2018

The Challenges of Poliovirus Eradication, by J.Yelle

12 January 2017

Following the successful efforts to wipe out the virus of Smallpox (Variola virus) that started in the 1950s and officially realized their goal in 19803, the World Health Organization (WHO) made a commitment in 1988 to eradicate Poliovirus and poliomyelitis and achieve a Polio-free world by 2000. This ambitious project proved to be much more challenging than initially anticipated.